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Originally Posted by TheSlyMoogle
Final Fantasy Tactics. Save for 3 battles where you went from 1 fight to the next in succession but the first battle was always simple.
Pretty much every strategy RPG had heals after every battle. For the most part it's never about the heal management. Pretty much every RPG gives you enough healing stuff to cope with the loss of HP. Whether you're sucking down potions or tanking on the giant mana pool of your white mage, whose sole purpose is to heal you and deal like 25 damage to the critters, up until he/she finally learns some disable spells and then by that time you've probably got some broken equips, skills, or spells that make healing mostly useless.
I can't think of any RPG where healing has been a big deal to me except inside a battle, and most of the time I'm thinking "Hmm... Do I have enough HP to tank another hit and end the battle or should I heal now?" That's it because I never have to heal except at the end of the battle or during boss battles. I find it to be a fine concept, as long as they compensate in other ways. Need of mana to deal damage to the enemies or something like that. Who knows.
I'm still excited for this game, and it's about time a final fantasy game made me want to play it.
*shakes head at 10 and 12*; *Sideways glance at 9 for being pretty terrible too*
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I was on the bus this morning thinking about FF tactics and was going to make a post about it but you beat me to the punch. Sure, counting your potions and making sure to properly ration them is something we're all used to, but is it really the best part of the game? No. Does it really affect the story? No.
What it does affect, is your play style and your attitude towards rationing items. Have you ever finished a Final Fantasy game with barely any items left? If you're a rationing king and pack rat like me, the answer is "AW HELL NO, I SAVED EVERY ETHER, ELIXIR AND POTION I COLLECTED!" So what value do these items have, if they're never used?
I'd like to see a Final Fantasy where these items are rare and not as necessary as they used to be. Going through the game relying on potions and white magic to heal yourself is a burden, albeit one that a lot of you guys seem to cherish. Have you ever been really excited about healing up after random encounters? Have you ever opened your menu and looked at your characters health and thought "Oh yaaa! It's time to use some potions, baby. I'm literally giddy with excitement about this, and I wish I could see more of this in future games!" Probably not. More likely, you're thinking to yourself "Oh okay, yea I guess it's time to heal." Then you press a few buttons, and go through the boring task of shuffling through your inventory, finding your potions and applying them to your characters to get them as full as possible without wasting any potions. This sort of boring yet necessary task is better off automated, in my opinion.
On the other hand, it could be that I power through this game and finish it without feeling any sort of challenge at all, which would be a bummer. Only time will tell.